A car prominently displaying Chanukah decorations, including a menorah mounted on its roof, was deliberately firebombed early Thursday morning in Melbourne’s St Kilda East neighborhood. According to a statement from Community Security Group (CSG) Victoria, the incident occurred just after 3:00 a.m. Police were called to the scene after the vehicle—clearly identifiable as Jewish due […]
The Ombudsman for Complaints Against Judges, judge Asher Kula, ruled in a decision published on Wednesday that Judge Ziv Arieli of the Hadera Magistrates Court showed skewed sensitivity in a
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas has renewed his push for the release of convicted terrorist Marwan Barghouti, meeting Tuesday with Barghouti’s wife as part of a broader Palestinian campaign to free one of Israel’s most notorious mass murderers. Abbas and Fadwa Barghouti met at the PA presidential headquarters in Ramallah, where Abbas issued a statement […]
This year’s flu season is shaping up to be one of the most punishing in recent memory, with hospitalizations climbing sharply and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimating 4.6 million flu cases nationwide so far—even as peak season is still weeks away. Health officials say the surge is being driven by an unusually […]
Legislation looking to lower energy prices nationally successfully passed the U.S. House on a slightly bipartisan vote. H.R. 3628, titled the “State Planning for Reliability and Affordability Act,” was introduced earlier this year by U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans, R-Colorado. The bill would direct certain state authorities that oversee electric utilities to place a greater emphasis […]
The IDF has launched a sweeping and unprecedented overhaul of how it gathers, processes, and acts on information, establishing a dedicated Artificial Intelligence Division in direct response to the failures exposed on October 7. The new division was created within the IDF’s C4I and Cyber Defense Directorate, under the command of Maj. Gen. Aviad Dagan, […]
Five years after the 2020 election, challenges in Georgia continue despite multiple audits. The latest questions surround the December meeting of the Georgia State Election Board. Nearly two weeks after
More than a dozen staff members are abandoning the Heritage Foundation to join a think tank founded by former Vice President Mike Pence, a dramatic defection that lays bare deepening fractures inside the conservative movement over extremism, antisemitism, and its future direction. The departing employees — including senior figures from Heritage’s legal, economic, and data […]
Artwork depicting Anne Frank wearing a Palestinian keffiyeh has ignited a fierce backlash in Germany, with Israeli officials and Jewish organizations accusing the artist and museum of desecrating Holocaust memory
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from enforcing a March presidential memorandum to revoke the security clearance of prominent Washington attorney Mark Zaid, ruling that the order — which also targeted 14 other individuals — could not be applied to him. The decision marked the administration’s second legal setback on Tuesday, after the […]
Justice Minister Yariv Levin has given up on appointing an official to head the investigation into the ex-Military Advocate General affair, Israeli media outlets reported on Wednesday. The decision comes
A Pennsylvania elementary school principal is facing termination after allegedly leaving a voicemail laced with antisemitic slurs for a Jewish parent. Philip Leddy, principal of Lower Gwynedd Elementary School in
The average rate on a 30-year U.S. mortgage ticked down modestly this week, remaining in the same narrow range of the past two months. The average long-term mortgage rate fell
Israel has revealed that a senior financial operative in Hamas’s military wing was killed in a targeted strike in Gaza. According to the IDF’s Arabic-language spokesperson, Col. Avichay Adraee, Abdel Hay Zaqout, a member of the finance department of Hamas’s Izzadin al-Qassam Brigades, was killed two weeks ago in the same strike that eliminated senior […]
A 4-year-old girl who was critically injured after being struck by a school bus nearly three months ago has been released from the hospital and is now recovering at home,
A man accused of shooting two National Guard troops near the White House has been charged in a complaint with federal firearms charges in connection with the ambush on November
A resident of Perth, Australia, was arrested on Tuesday after posting messages supporting the Bondi Beach massacre. An Australian court in Perth on Wednesday filed charges against 39-year-old Martin Glynn
Antisemitic political commentator Candace Owens used her YouTube platform over the weekend to promote a 19th-century antisemitic text and advance a series of conspiracy theories accusing Jews of orchestrating the transatlantic slave trade, fomenting racial conflict in the United States, and secretly manipulating political and religious groups. The episode centered on Owens’ grievances against Ben […]
The Trump administration is deploying 350 National Guard troops to New Orleans ahead of the New Year, launching another federal deployment in the city at the same time that an
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